The Coronavirus Thread

[JimC]

The pressure to ignore social distancing is 'uge' right now. How are my fellow 'mericans coping? Do you have an understanding family, or a bunch of Trumpian loons who protested masks, and think you're being crazy to follow CDC guidelines?

The virus is exerting telepathic pressure on the population to mingle...

You mean like the toxoplasmosis parasite causes infested rodents to fall in love with the cats that prey upon them, the Capitalist parasite infests the pychie of the gullible conservatives causing them to fall in love with the oligarchs and corporatists who gave them the plague in the first place?

Exactly!

Darwin will not be mocked!

[JimC]

Doesn't matter what you were speaking of, my point is that both sides will see much the same thing, especially of the 'other side'.

This sentence refuses to be parsed to give a rational statement...

[Cunt]

Doesn't matter what you were speaking of, my point is that both sides will see much the same thing, especially of the 'other side'.

This sentence refuses to be parsed to give a rational statement...

OK

[Scot Dutchy]

World's media ask how it went so wrong for 'Plague Island' Britain

Boris Johnson comes under fire as countries suspend travel from UK over new Covid variant

In the eyes of the world’s media, Britain – a “Plague Island” led by a man who thinks “optimism is a substitute for hard truths and proper management” – is currently getting a good lesson in “what ‘reclaiming sovereignty’ means”.

If never quite explicit, the schadenfreude is palpable as dozens of countries, days before the end of the Brexit transition period and with no trade deal yet agreed, suspend travel from the UK in response to the new, more contagious coronavirus variant.

Much of the blame was on Boris Johnson, whose U-turn on Christmas had “once more shown the yawning gulf between the prime minister’s airy promises and the real world,” said Germany’s Die Welt.

That vacuum, however, is now “fast being filled with the anger and fear of a nation hit ever since by horror story upon horror story”. The continental blockade could well be “preparing the British for what Brexit might actually mean”, the paper said, “since there is still no agreement on a trade deal, 10 days before the deadline.”

[rainbow]

The UK could always appeal to the European court of Justice.

[Seabass]

“Plague Island”

Uh does that make 'Murica "Plague Continent"?

[Brian Peacock]

New virulent strain reported in South Africa.

[Scot Dutchy]

Another mask wearing country.

[Cunt]

[NineBerry]

Fuck off

[Cunt]

Fuck off

You should probably find a way to force people to stop joking about your serious matters.

[NineBerry]

It's not a joke. It's not funny. In going to ignore you from now on and asking everyone else to do the same

[Cunt]

It's not a joke. It's not funny. In going to ignore you from now on and asking everyone else to do the same

It's satire.

But knowing how you deal with political differences, I am not surprised you can't enjoy it that way.

[Sean Hayden]

"Have more faith, less fear"

[JimC]

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear